[PATCH] ARM: imx6q: add support for IRAM

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:43:56PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:10:15AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> > Why is this even specific to fsl?  Isn't it something that could be
>> > specified in a totally generic way?
>> >
>> > As I showed with my original set of sram patches, there is not much
>> > specific about this on-board RAM: what is specific is how a SoC uses
>> > it, and that's up to the rest of the SoC code.
>> >
>> As I have not seen any news/updates about the sram consolidation series
>> since May, I did not bring up it here.  So what's the state of the
>> series?  If it shows up on some stable branch, we would be happy to
>> base the work here on it.
>
> I have no idea; as I've already said, I lost total interest in it.
>
> What I _am_ saying though is that rather than defining some platform
> specific bindings and continuing that idiotic state of affairs, we
> have the chance to do things properly now: define a standard set of
> DT bindings to describe on-board SRAM.
>
> That's something which can be done with or without the sram
> consolidation stuff.

I second this. It's just a piece of RAM, it should be described
the same way irrespective of system or even OS.

On-chip RAM is yet another area where platforms and their
maintainers sometimes think they are very different - just like
everyone else.

(This connects to the other IRAM patch floating on the list.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij